(13-06-08 20:00:00) #39414213: ST VINCENT $2.25 MINIATURE SHEET PERFORATION ERROR! [2.50 GBP]

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ST VINCENT $2.25 MINIATURE SHEET PERFORATION ERROR!

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Stampingonlundy [100% (36x)]
Current price:	£2.50 ± $ 4.38
Wallet :	No
Time left:	Closed sale
Location:	United Kingdom
Seller checked:	Yes

Item description:

ST VINCENT $2.25 MINIATURE SHEET PERFORATION ERROR!

Single sheet of 2 stamps of the $2.25 value. Major printing error, significant perforation error. No other damage, full gum and includes printers imprint to sheet margins. This is the only values I have of this issue.

Conditions of sale:

Delivery Method:    Shipping after payment
Shipping costs:    Paid by the buyer
Places:    Seller's country, Europe, North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Oceania

Payment Cash, Bank transfer, Postal money order, Domestic check (seller's country), Foreign check, Paypal, MoneyBookers

Shipping and handling:

To help you this is what will happen if you bid and win:

I will send an e-mail invoice to you with all the information you will require to send payment.

When payment is received I will e-mail your registered e-mail address informing you I have posted. Your registered address is how I will correspond with you, if you don't use it you won't hear from me.

I reserve the right to end an auction early should the need arise.

Please read the description and examine the photos carefully. I also encourage you to ask any questions you have during the auction to help clarify identification or condition, as I may inadvertently omit information that you feel is important.

Sorry NOT responsible for loss or damage caused (although extremely rare!) by the postal service, although more than happy to chase them up for you. Please understand IT IS NOT MY FAULT if the post office looses it!

Forms of Payment Accepted

(Postage is the same rate HOWEVER MANY ITEMS YOU BUY)

In the UK you can pay by Cheque, Bank transfer, Cash (please send recorded), Moneybookers or Postal Order.

If you live in the USA or Canada you can pay by Check ($10 Bank fee on ALL types of Paper cheques), Cash (please send recorded) Bank Transfer (be sure to explain to your bank you will pay all fees or your item cannot be shipped) or Moneybookers (Sterling only please) . Exchange rate is my local Bank Rate at this time. USA residents please DO NOT send Federal Postal Money Orders.

Please note Moneybookers will not allow US and Canadian credit cards to be registered, only a currency transfer from a card or bank account to Moneybookers.

All other countries need to contact me for shipping and payment details before bidding.

Postage for Stamp Auctions.

(Postage is the same rate HOWEVER MANY ITEMS YOU BUY)

UK: The postage rate will be £1.00 by First Class Post (Not insured). Insurance available on request.

USA & Canada: The postage will be £1.50 by Air Mail (Not insured). Surface shipping available on request as is Insurance.

Europe: The postage will be £1.50 by Air Mail (Not insured). Surface is not available to Europe. Insurance available on request.

Message from the member Stampingonlundy:

I specialize in the sale of Lundy Island Stamps and have one of the largest collections at discount prices.

Please note the pictures used on this site are not to scale and are produced in this format as a guide to the item only. Non of your stamps will have faults or flaws as may be seen on some of these sample pictures, unless they are sold as such and you have been personally informed.

Here is a brief history of the exciting Puffin Lundy Postage Stamps. The earliest date recorded for the opening of the Lundy Island Post Office is 3^rd March 1887, though it is unlikely that it did in fact operate until 1892, when the GPO laid a cable from Croyde in North Devon across the Bristol Channel to the Lundy island and built a stone cable hut where the cable terminated-against the east wall of the keep of Marisco Castle. The cable hut became known as the Post Office, which contained a table and counter, pigeonholes for sorting letters, a stationery cabinet, as well as two bunks and a cooking stove. The latter used by linemen sent from the mainland to lay and service the cables connected to the island’s two lighthouses, there to warn Bristol Channel shipping, which subsequently came into service in 1896. Still a long way yet to the now familiar Lundy Postage Stamps!

From 1912 to about 1915 there was a twice-weekly mail service using British not Lundy Postage Stamps to Lundy Island, one from Instow North Devon and one from Bristol operated by SS Devonia. During the First World War the service was either from Milford Haven or from Ilfracombe North Devon. In 1912 the renowned MV Lerina entered service, carrying mail between Instow North Devon and the island in the Bristol Channel, culminating in October 1925 when M C Harman acquired not only Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel but also the mail-carrying contract together with MV Lerina.

The first Sub Postmaster appointed, Mr F Allday, held the post for over 30 years, until he left in 1926, being succeeded by M C Harman’s next appointee, Mr H Lang who held the Post Office for only about 1 year before leaving. M C Harman’s head gardener, Mr W Mien, then took over the Post Office but he too only held the job for a few months before leaving Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel. As no successor could be found from the islands population, M C Harman requested the Postmaster General to close the Post Office and the GPO ceased to have any interest in the Bristol Channel island after the end of 1927.

It is interesting to recall that the various sub-post Masters were allowed by the GPO to hire a donkey to carry the mails from the island’s landing beach to the Post Office and down again.

For 2 years M C Harman continued to carry, free of charge, mail to and from the North Devon mainland on MV Lerina, the mail being transported in sealed mail bags to and from the sub Post Office at Instow North Devon by Captain W Dark, skipper of MV Lerina. Responsibility for distributing incoming mail and despatching outgoing mail on Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel was in the hands of the late, renowned, Mr F W Gade who had arrived in 1926 on a three month trial, as M C Harman’s resident agent, a position to be retained except for a short break until Mr F W Gade retired in 1971.

In 1929 M C Harman decided that he could no longer afford the free mail service, and to defray his costs he conceived the idea of issuing special Lundy Stamps, better known as Puffin Stamps for fixing to incoming and outgoing mail. He choose, for the new Lundy Postage Stamps the Puffin as his Puffin Stamps unit of currency for Lundy Stamps, being equivalent of the British penny, and on the 1^st Nov. 1929 the first Lundy Stamps of Lundy Island were issued, the Puffin Stamps half Puffin Pink and the Puffin Stamps 1 Puffin Blue. Half a million of each Puffin Stamps Puffin value were printed by Bradbury Wilkinson and Co Ltd who also printed the additional 6 Puffin, 9 Puffin and 12 Puffin values introduced on the 9^th July 1930. The bird has appeared consistently on most Lundy Stamps issues since then. Thus commenced the issue of a long series of Lundy Stamps, which form the bulk of my stock.

As many of you will know I have moved from another auction site and hope to continue here for some time to come, offering better bargains than before!

Information on the sale

Current price:	£2.50 ± $ 4.38
Bid increment:	£0.25 ± $ 0.44
Wallet :	No
Time left:	Closed sale
Starting date:	Fri 6th Jun 2008 20:43:40 (GMT+1.0)
Ending date:	Fri 13th Jun 2008 20:00:00 (GMT+1.0)

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Stampingonlundy [100% (36x)]

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ST VINCENT $2.25 MINIATURE SHEET PERFORATION ERROR!